Mentions in news, blogs & Google+

News articles
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Twitter demographics

Country

Tweets

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Citations

Single number count for article citations from each service's database (may vary by service). The citations counts are reliant on the availability of the individual APIs from Web of Science, CrossRef, and Scopus. These counts are updated daily once they become available. Once a citation count is available, the list of articles citing this one is accessible by clicking on the circle for that citation source.

News, blogs and Google+ posts

The number of times an article has been cited by individual mainstream news sources, blog post, or member of Google+ along with a link to the original article or post. News articles, blog posts and Google+ posts do not always link to articles in a way that can be picked up by aggregators used by Altmetric, so the listed links are not necessarily a reflection of the entire scope of media, blog or Google+ interest. Further, the list of blogs and news sources covered is manually curated by Altmetric and thus is subject to their discretion for inclusion as a scientific blog or media source. The news, blog, and Google+ posts are provided by Altmetric and are updated hourly.

Altmetric score

Altmetric calculates a score based on the online attention an article receives. Each coloured thread in the circle represents a different type of online attention and the number in the centre is the Altmetric score. The score is calculated based on two main sources of online attention: social media and mainstream news media. Altmetric also tracks usage in online reference managers such as Mendeley and CiteULike, but these do not contribute to the score. Older articles will typically score higher because they have had more time to get noticed. To account for this, Altmetric has included the context data for articles of a "similar age" (published within 6 weeks of either side of the publication date of this article).

Additional data

Affiliations

SUPA and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, Scotland, UK

E. Tesio,

P. M. Gomes,

G.-L. Oppo,

W. J. Firth,

G. R. M. Robb,

A. S. Arnold,

R. Kaiser &

T. Ackemann

Contributions

G.L. led the experimental effort and performed the experiment with the help of P.G. They were joined by T.A., A.A. and R.K. in data analysis. E.T., G.R., G.L.O. and W.J.F. performed the theoretical and computational analysis. T.A. conceived the experiment and coordinated the joint efforts with R.K. All authors contributed to the discussion and interpretation of results and commented on the manuscript.